Charles Peckham Day (born February 9, 1976) is an American actor,
screenwriter, producer, comedian, and director. He is best known for
playing Charlie Kelly on the sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
(2005â€"present), for which he was nominated for a Critics' Choice
Television Award and a Satellite Award in 2011. In film, he is known
for his role as Dale in the films Horrible Bosses (2011) and its 2014
sequel, as well as for his roles in Monsters University (2013),
Pacific Rim (2013), The Lego Movie (2014), Fist Fight (2017), Pacific
Rim: Uprising (2018), and The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019).
From 2018 to 2019, Day was the executive producer on the Fox comedy
The Cool Kids.Day was born in The Bronx, in New York City, but spent
most of his childhood in Middletown, Rhode Island. He is the younger
child of two, with an older sister named Alice. His mother, Mary (née
Peckham), was a piano teacher at The Pennfield School in Portsmouth,
Rhode Island, and his father, Dr. Thomas Charles Day, is a retired
professor of music history at Salve Regina University in Newport,
Rhode Island. His family's original surname was "Del Giorno" and his
father is of Irish and Italian descent, while his mother has English,
Irish, and Welsh ancestry.Day attended Pennfield School and graduated
from the Portsmouth Abbey School, both in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He
attended Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, majoring
in art history in 1998. In May 2014, Day gave the commencement speech
for Merrimack College's graduating class and received an honorary
Ph.D.
screenwriter, producer, comedian, and director. He is best known for
playing Charlie Kelly on the sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
(2005â€"present), for which he was nominated for a Critics' Choice
Television Award and a Satellite Award in 2011. In film, he is known
for his role as Dale in the films Horrible Bosses (2011) and its 2014
sequel, as well as for his roles in Monsters University (2013),
Pacific Rim (2013), The Lego Movie (2014), Fist Fight (2017), Pacific
Rim: Uprising (2018), and The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019).
From 2018 to 2019, Day was the executive producer on the Fox comedy
The Cool Kids.Day was born in The Bronx, in New York City, but spent
most of his childhood in Middletown, Rhode Island. He is the younger
child of two, with an older sister named Alice. His mother, Mary (née
Peckham), was a piano teacher at The Pennfield School in Portsmouth,
Rhode Island, and his father, Dr. Thomas Charles Day, is a retired
professor of music history at Salve Regina University in Newport,
Rhode Island. His family's original surname was "Del Giorno" and his
father is of Irish and Italian descent, while his mother has English,
Irish, and Welsh ancestry.Day attended Pennfield School and graduated
from the Portsmouth Abbey School, both in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He
attended Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, majoring
in art history in 1998. In May 2014, Day gave the commencement speech
for Merrimack College's graduating class and received an honorary
Ph.D.
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